What goes where?

[thedougster]

I am not sure how best to set up hard drives on my new machine. I was going to have 3 drives in RAID0 so as to get some performance increase over just the one. I will be putting my OS on this 'drive'

The thing is I am not sure how best to partition the drive up. I will have 3 160Gb drives giving me 480Gb. Is it best to just have a partition for the OS then partition the rest up as needed or would it be best having the OS on just 1 drive and then set the other 2 up in RAID0 thus keeping the OS and all my other stuff on seperate drives.

Ehat method will give me the best performace?

D

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: thedougster

I am not sure how best to set up hard drives on my new machine. I was going to have 3 drives in RAID0 so as to get some performance increase over just the one. I will be putting my OS on this 'drive'

The thing is I am not sure how best to partition the drive up. I will have 3 160Gb drives giving me 480Gb. Is it best to just have a partition for the OS then partition the rest up as needed or would it be best having the OS on just 1 drive and then set the other 2 up in RAID0 thus keeping the OS and all my other stuff on seperate drives.

Ehat method will give me the best performace?

D

Not sure how you would accomplish it, but I would put the OS on a partition by itself, not in the RAID array. RAID 0 gives marginal (debateable) performance increases, but if one drive fails, all is lost. Personally, I don't want my OS going POOF.